Former President Bill Clinton will be in Green Bay on Friday to campaign for President Barack Obama, the Green Bay Press-Gazette has learned.

The campaign for the Democratic incumbent president said additional details for the visit would be coming later.

Northeastern Wisconsin has been a hot spot in the tight race for the presidency with recent visits from First Lady Michelle Obama and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, a congressman from Janesville.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney picked Ryan as his running mate before the Republican convention in the summer.

Clinton visited the Green Bay area twice as a candidate for president.

In October 1992, he spoke from atop a wagon and played the saxophone for a crowd of about 5,000 people at the Bill Clancy farm in Greenleaf.

While running for re-election in 1996, Clinton spoke to an estimated 30,000 people at a Labor Day rally at Voyageur Park in De Pere.